Been to 16 MLB stadiums, 7 NFL stadiums and 6 NHL arenas. Philly fans are the worst with redskin fans not far behind. Before my travels, I thought New York would be full of jerks. However, I was very surprised that the Yankee and Mets fans were ok and enjoyable.

upndn:Been to 16 MLB stadiums, 7 NFL stadiums and 6 NHL arenas. Philly fans are the worst with redskin fans not far behind. Before my travels, I thought New York would be full of jerks. However, I was very surprised that the Yankee and Mets fans were ok and enjoyable.

It boils down to this.... you are told time and again by the media that Philly has the worst fans. So you go in expecting the worst fans and you're on the lookout for it and of course you're going to find it. You go to Cleveland or New York expecting pleasantness, you will probably find it.

Reinforcing preconceived notions is what it's all about.

Now, if someone could prove to me.... WITH STATS.... how Philly has the worst fans, I will lap that sh*t up and go home.

foo monkey:upndn: Been to 16 MLB stadiums, 7 NFL stadiums and 6 NHL arenas. Philly fans are the worst with redskin fans not far behind. Before my travels, I thought New York would be full of jerks. However, I was very surprised that the Yankee and Mets fans were ok and enjoyable.

/Philly can be scary before, during and after a game.

Redskins fans are just mad the visiting team has more fans.

Right you are. I was in DC at the steeler-redskin game a few years back. It was the same night Obama got inducted in. Anyways, the skins were driving down the field and had to call a time out in the red zone because the steeler fans were too loud.

upndn:foo monkey: upndn: Been to 16 MLB stadiums, 7 NFL stadiums and 6 NHL arenas. Philly fans are the worst with redskin fans not far behind. Before my travels, I thought New York would be full of jerks. However, I was very surprised that the Yankee and Mets fans were ok and enjoyable.

/Philly can be scary before, during and after a game.

Redskins fans are just mad the visiting team has more fans.

Right you are. I was in DC at the steeler-redskin game a few years back. It was the same night Obama got inducted in. Anyways, the skins were driving down the field and had to call a time out in the red zone because the steeler fans were too loud.

/true story//steeler fans travel well

Steeler fans travel well because they don't need to travel; when the mills went belly-up and the local economy self-destructed in the '70s and '80s the yinzers spread out across the country like fungal spores.

upndn:Been to 16 MLB stadiums, 7 NFL stadiums and 6 NHL arenas. Philly fans are the worst with redskin fans not far behind. Before my travels, I thought New York would be full of jerks. However, I was very surprised that the Yankee and Mets fans were ok and enjoyable.

/Philly can be scary before, during and after a game.

Honestly curious as to when the Redskins fans were jerks. In my experience they/we've all been beaten into a coma of Snyder despair to have the energy to be jerks to other fans.

The only exception I can think of was nine years ago at a Redskins/Eagles game. A guy in a Chargers jersey was trying to stir shiat about Philadelphia's lack of SB rings. He had pretty much tge entire FedEx Field 400 level chanting/booing him about San Diego's lack of success.

upndn:foo monkey: upndn: Been to 16 MLB stadiums, 7 NFL stadiums and 6 NHL arenas. Philly fans are the worst with redskin fans not far behind. Before my travels, I thought New York would be full of jerks. However, I was very surprised that the Yankee and Mets fans were ok and enjoyable.

/Philly can be scary before, during and after a game.

Redskins fans are just mad the visiting team has more fans.

Right you are. I was in DC at the steeler-redskin game a few years back. It was the same night Obama got inducted in. Anyways, the skins were driving down the field and had to call a time out in the red zone because the steeler fans were too loud.

/true story//steeler fans travel well

That's because even Steelers fans are smart enough to want to get the fark out of Pittsburgh

A few years back my nephew went to a Chiefs/Broncos game at Arrowhead. We're from SW Missouri, but my nephews are Broncos fans seeing their mom is from Denver. He was going through the drunken tailgaters in the parking lot before the game when a couple were calling his 3 year old girl a whore for wearing a Broncos sweater. My point is, there are idiots every where you go.

Mad Mark:A few years back my nephew went to a Chiefs/Broncos game at Arrowhead. We're from SW Missouri, but my nephews are Broncos fans seeing their mom is from Denver. He was going through the drunken tailgaters in the parking lot before the game when a couple were calling his 3 year old girl a whore for wearing a Broncos sweater. My point is, there are idiots every where you go.

Dougie AXP:This just in: each city has asshole fans. I've been accusted in Houston, Dallas, New York, and DC during football season and in Pittsburgh during hockey season.

Do these guys deserve jail time? Yes.

Is it only Philly fans who act this way? Nope.

And Christ people! The Santa thing was over 50 years ago and it wasnt even Santa. It was some skinny drunk pulled out of the crowd to play Santa.

Get some new material.

No. I remember a stadium full of Philly fans going wild as Michael Irving lay motionless after landing on his neck. Cheering a possible career ending, perhaps even life ending injury. So no, no new material is needed. Eagles fans will never be redeemed.

coeyagi:It boils down to this.... you are told time and again by the media that Philly has the worst fans. So you go in expecting the worst fans and you're on the lookout for it and of course you're going to find it. You go to Cleveland or New York expecting pleasantness, you will probably find it.

Reinforcing preconceived notions is what it's all about.

Now, if someone could prove to me.... WITH STATS.... how Philly has the worst fans, I will lap that sh*t up and go home.

Yakk:Why do people do this? Wearing the jersey of the visiting team is a terrible idea anywhere, in Philly it's insane though.

I went to a St Louis Blues game. The Blues were playing the Blackhawks. It looked like a Peewee or Bantam league from Chicago there. It was mostly dads and sons. People were throwing shiat at the kids and yelling at them. It was embarrassing.

On the flip side I went to a Blues Leafs game up in Toronto. The day before the game my wife and I were walking around in in their underground mall in our Blues sweaters. Were saying 'hi' to us, asking if were there for the game and wishing us a great visit. It was truly enjoyable.

Muta:Yakk: Why do people do this? Wearing the jersey of the visiting team is a terrible idea anywhere, in Philly it's insane though.

I went to a St Louis Blues game. The Blues were playing the Blackhawks. It looked like a Peewee or Bantam league from Chicago there. It was mostly dads and sons. People were throwing shiat at the kids and yelling at them. It was embarrassing.

On the flip side I went to a Blues Leafs game up in Toronto. The day before the game my wife and I were walking around in in their underground mall in our Blues sweaters. Were saying 'hi' to us, asking if were there for the game and wishing us a great visit. It was truly enjoyable.

I went to the Broncos/Saints game in Denver last year. Had a blast tailgating with a group of other Who Dats. The Denver fans around us were all cool. We traded gumbo and king cake for ribs with the partiers around us....then it was game time. Me and my brother-in-law were cussed at, had trash thrown at us all game, and another Saints fan I was talking to was hit in the face with an aluminum beer "bottle". And the whole time, the Broncos were kicking the shait out of the Saints. The whole thing left a bad feeling towards Denver fans that still lingers. Im glad the donkos are doing well this year, but I wont be sad if Manning goes all Manning in the playoffs and they bow out early.

Proletariat In Charge:I went to the Broncos/Saints game in Denver last year. Had a blast tailgating with a group of other Who Dats. The Denver fans around us were all cool. We traded gumbo and king cake for ribs with the partiers around us....then it was game time. Me and my brother-in-law were cussed at, had trash thrown at us all game, and another Saints fan I was talking to was hit in the face with an aluminum beer "bottle". And the whole time, the Broncos were kicking the shait out of the Saints. The whole thing left a bad feeling towards Denver fans that still lingers. Im glad the donkos are doing well this year, but I wont be sad if Manning goes all Manning in the playoffs and they bow out early.

/csb

That's actually a very reasonable response for someone that had trash thrown at them.

born_yesterday:Proletariat In Charge: I went to the Broncos/Saints game in Denver last year. Had a blast tailgating with a group of other Who Dats. The Denver fans around us were all cool. We traded gumbo and king cake for ribs with the partiers around us....then it was game time. Me and my brother-in-law were cussed at, had trash thrown at us all game, and another Saints fan I was talking to was hit in the face with an aluminum beer "bottle". And the whole time, the Broncos were kicking the shait out of the Saints. The whole thing left a bad feeling towards Denver fans that still lingers. Im glad the donkos are doing well this year, but I wont be sad if Manning goes all Manning in the playoffs and they bow out early.

/csb

That's actually a very reasonable response for someone that had trash thrown at them.

thanks. I recall at the time that I was lamenting the fact that I didnt have enough money for bail, and that we were outnumbered approximately 76000 - 2.

Muta:Dougie AXP: And Christ people! The Santa thing was over 50 years ago and it wasnt even Santa. It was some skinny drunk pulled out of the crowd to play Santa.

Get some new material.

Here you go. Philly fans are assholes.

Notice that picture is completely devoid of context. We don't know how the thing started. The devils fan could have been a dick for all we know and was acting like one.

I've been to devils games and they were fine with me and I with them.

Same thing this year in Pitt. They were surprised how cordial a flyers fan could be. When I asked had they ever gone to a game there they said no. When two of my co workers (huge pens fans) went to philly for a game they were prepping for the apocalypse. They got back and were truly shocked that there wasnt dead penguin fans everywhere and human sacrifices.

Also at the pens flyers game I went to there was a guy there clad to the bone in pens gear heckling the shiat out of his own team and I turned to my friends who came with and said "I thought you guys didn't have those kinda of fans" and they replied "assholes are everywhere"

I know several fellow chicago Blackhawks fans who traveled to Philly during 2010 Stanley Cup Finals. Many of these people, in separate sections were repeatedly harassed (woman included) by the boorish, incorrigible Flyer fans. The nerve of fans to show up and root for the other team.